Biography Albert Alcalay

Following is the obituary of the artist, written by Phyllis Meras and published May 8, 2008 in the Vineyard Gazette newspaper, Martha's Vineyard.

"Albert Alcalay, Prominent Contemporary Artist, Dies"

Albert Alcalay, oil painter, watercolorist, printmaker, sculptor, etcher, teacher of art and design and an Island seasonal resident since the 1960s, died March 29 in Boston of complications from an infection. He was 91 and made his winter home in Brookline.

In 1987 in a tribute for his 70th birthday, the late Angela Watson of West Tisbury, a longtime art educator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, called Mr. Alcalay "a major force in contemporary art." His work is in the permanent collec
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